Not finished yet….
I'm not done with Fallout 3, yet, but I've already capped out on levels. Do I have to finish the game before I can install the expansion?

"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."
Olympia says that early in the book, after the scene at the strip club, but it seems to me that the book is, in part, about trying to make freaks. From Al and Lil custom-building their children for profit, to Arty inciting his followers to become more freakish…

Time Zone problems
I'm really enjoying this, but I'm at work all day, and four or five hours behind most of you guys(I'm in Alaska), so I miss out on the flurry of comments. I'm also going to miss out on the chat tomorrow, which sounds like it will be fun(if not fantastically chaotic). I know we all love not working…

Empathy
My break is almost over, so I apologize if my comment is just rehashing others. I don't have time at the moment to read all the comments, so I'll have to do that after work.

Norval was quite obviously planning on writing a tell-all book, you can see it in the notes(both content and tone) that are scattered through the back half of the book. I thought he was intellectually(and perhaps spiritually) intrigued by Arturism, but realized it was foolish and dangerous. I never got the feeling…

For myself, I'm kinda enjoying the separate discussions.

Basically Mumpo was a means to an end. Dunn needed a big finish, and she needed a way to get there. Having one of the twins kill her own child, then herself, was a pretty immediate and shocking way for Chick to see how manipulative and evil Arty was at his core. And Mumpo needed to give everyone the heebie-jeebies so…

I think part of what made that revelation so off-putting to me was the way it was delivered. I'll concede that the emotion in the scene is valid, but I still question Horst telling a young woman whose family had all died that she found her mother trying to fuck her dead father.

For me at least, Arturism was a kind of one sided thing; we saw what Arturo and others thought of it, and a few glimpses of what he was preaching, but we were never really given the perspective of someone actually IN the cult. Arty had his elitist theories about why the 'losers' would do it, but we never really heard…

Freakishness
For the most part, the disturbing, 'shocking' elements of this book didn't bother me, because they illustrated how different the Binewski's were from everyone else. And it showed how their family unit worked(the casual, almost expected attitude towards incest and promiscuity, to cite one example). But a…

I kinda disliked the way Dunn treated a lot of the big events in this book. The shooting was effective, but the fire was too sudden, as others have said, and the repercussions were over way too quickly. Also the conceit of cutting from the struggle in the lockerroom at the end to a news report from the next day was a…

Yes!
I'm really, really looking forward to the discussions about this. I've always wanted to be in a book club.
Yes, I'm pathetically nerdy.

Loved it..
I can agree with most of the complaints about this series, but I still enjoyed it. My major qualm, though, is what happened with multiple-personality Echo when they brought her back to the Dollhouse. She was pretty self aware, and certainly knew that they were going to wipe her of those personalities. Did…

Jesus! The 11th is only 3 days away!? Fuck. Gotta burn through that back half.

I have to second this… my first thought was 'why isn't James Taylor on this list?' He doesn't have much dialogue(none of them do, outside of GTO), but the way he carries himself and just looks at something in that film is so goddamn perfect.

Th ending…
This is only the second Wenders film I've seen(the other, of course, is Wings of Desire), and I only rented it because Monte Hellman mentions it in the commentary to Two Lane Blacktop.

The Most Recent…
Every few years something like this happens, where I feel really letdown by music. Even the music I really enjoy, it just seems to bore me, and then something comes around that shakes me out of my groove. Discovering Man… Or Astro-Man? in college(particularly the song Maximum Radiation Level, the…

My problem with Buffy lately is that it seems to be racing by a lot of stuff for the sake of some breezy, jokey reading. The end of that Fray arc had a major, major event in it, and it was only given a quick passing. And it hasn't been mentioned since. It'll probably come into play at a later date, but it was still…

Spanish Versions
Everyone should track down the Legacy Collection for Dracula(and Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Invisible Man…). Not only does it have all of the sequels(good and bad), but it has the Spanish language version of Dracula, filmed at night on the same sets with the same script…

Kryptonite Nevermore
This is super exciting. I own about half the issues in that story arc, and have been trying for years to find the rest(at a somewhat reasonable price, that is). I loved the story I read, and some of those bonus Twilight Zone inspired Kryptonian stories, so it'll be awesome to finally have the…